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Fox News Airs "Magic Negro" Message On New Year's Broadcast
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
Think Progress caught a "magic negro" reference during the New Years Eve broadcast on Fox News.
Viewers were allowed to text in messages that scrolled across the bottom in lieu of the news.
One message read:
HAPPY NEW YEAR AND LET'S HOPE THE MAGIC NEGRO DOES A GOOD JOB. LOVE JEN AND JOHN C.
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Fox News Airs "Magic Negro" Message On New Year's Broadcast
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Think Progress caught a "magic negro" reference during the New Years Eve broadcast on Fox News.
Viewers were allowed to text in messages that scrolled across the bottom in lieu of the news.
One message read:
HAPPY NEW YEAR AND LET'S HOPE THE MAGIC NEGRO DOES A GOOD JOB. LOVE JEN AND JOHN C.
WATCH:
Fair and Balanced, Bitchez
Shakesville —
Just watch the scroll at the bottom of the screen, where Fox News was posting Happy New Year text messages from its viewers: If you can't see the video, it reads: "HAPPY NEW YEAR AND LET'S HOPE THE MAGIC NEGRO DOES A GOOD JOB. LOVE JEN AND JOHN C." Stay classy, Fox. [Via Think Progress.]
Lest There Be Any Doubt About Fox News’ Racist Agenda And Demographics…
News Hounds —
... reported that the head of the RNC, Mike Duncan, condemned this action, Angle described the CD as “poking fun at liberals.” (hardehaha!). On a subsequent “Grapevine,” Angle reported that conservative leaders (state leaders and Ken Blackwell) were rallying around Saltsman (how nice!). But Fox News showed its true color on New Years Eve during the Hemmer and Kelly Times Square show. They invited their viewers to send in New Years greetings and this uplifting message appeared on the *crawl: “HAPPY NEW YEAR AND LET’S HOPE THE MAGIC NEGRO DOES A GOOD JOB. LOVE JEN AND JOHN C. ...
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Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... And not to be left out, Fox News, along with their viewers, are apparently jumping on the uninformed band wagon, too. On New Year's eve, they were scrolling New Year's messages from viewers along the bottom of the screen and they allowed one on the air that read: ...
Fox News broadcasts a racist New Year's message
Feministing —
... On New Years Eve, Fox News Channel allowed folks to text in Happy New Years wishes to be scrolled at the bottom of the screen where news headlines are usually featured. One text I guess "slipped" through the screening process, where someone referenced to the racist "Barack the Magic Negro" song:
HAPPY NEW YEAR AND LET'S HOPE THE MAGIC NEGRO DOES A GOOD JOB. LOVE JEN AND JOHN C.
Via Think Progress. ...
Fox News Apologizes For "Magic Negro?" - Not!!!!!!
News Hounds —
Via Think Progress and TV Newser: Fox News VP of programming Suzanne Scott "explains" (not apologizes) the offensively racist New Years chyron, "We received tens of thousands of text message submissions during our New Years Eve special, and this particular viewer submission was inadvertently cleared for air. At FOX we recognize our error as opposed to networks who allow their hosts to utter crude vulgarities to the public." As noted by Think Progress, this isn't the first time that Fox News has allowed "racially charged" language directed at Obama. Earlier this ...
Fox News sure is touchy
Political Animal —
FOX NEWS SURE IS TOUCHY.... As part of its New Years broadcast this week, Fox News viewers were invited to send in messages that were then added to the network's on-screen crawl at the bottom of the screen. Presumably, someone at the network was checking the text to make sure FNC didn't air anything too offensive, but that didn't stop Fox News from broadcasting one message that said , "[L]et's hope the Magic Negro does a good job." Yesterday, a network official ...
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Daily Kos —
... Putting aside the violence in Gaza; Roland Burris' surprise appointment to President-Elect Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat; the completion of the recount in the Minnesota Senate race; and, the fact that a new year began — this was a pretty uneventful week. ...
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The Hollywood Liberal —
... As ThinkProgress recently noted, Fox News allowed at least one racist message directed toward President-elect Obama to make it on the air during its New Years broadcast. In a statement to TVNewser yesterday, Fox News VP of programming Suzanne Scott defended the incident, claiming that the text message referring to Rush Limbaugh’s “Barack the Magic […] As ThinkProgress recently noted , Fox News allowed ...
Fox&Friends Webpage - Do Mine Eyes Deceive Me?
News Hounds —
... "Obama's Ho On Obama's Honey" - Excuse Me????!!!!!! Never mind "fact checking." Fox needs some quality control in the technical division. Maybe it's just a "mistake" like the "magic Negro" reference on the crawl. Oh, whoopsie? ...
Fox&Friends Webpage - "Obama's Ho" - Do Mine Eyes Deceive Me?
News Hounds —
... "Obama's Ho On Obama's Honey" - Excuse Me????!!!!!! Never mind "fact checking." Fox needs some quality control in the technical division. Maybe it's just a "mistake" like the "magic Negro" reference on the crawl. Oh, whoopsie? ...
